Day in Photos: May 15, 2012

Outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leave the Elysee Palace after the handover ceremony while new President Francois Hollande, and his companion Valerie Trierweiler look on in Paris.

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Visitors sit in the new Flying Ninjago of the Legoland theme park in Guenzburg, Germany.

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A video image of a man who set fire to himself outside the courthouse in Oslo where the trial against terror and murder charged Anders Behring Breivik is taking place. The man was overpowered by security and police personnel as he was running towards the entrance to the courthouse.

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A view of the city of Qingdao is seen in the fog in Shandong Province of China.

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A Lebanese boy looks through a hole made by shrapnel that hit his house, after the Lebanese army was deployed to a Syrian street which divides the Sunni and Alawite areas, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon.

Local radio personalities Fitzy (right) and Wippa lift Chandra Bahadur Dangi, the world shortest person, as water rushes in on Bondi Beach in Sydney. Dangi, a 72-year-old Nepalese man who is 21.5 inches tall, touched the ocean and sand for the first time in his life.

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A worker fumigates the field before the start of an Indian Premier League cricket match between Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab in New Delhi, India.

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Masked Palestinians hurl stones at Israeli troops, not seen, during clashes outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting with Premier Dmitry Medvedev to discuss forming a new cabinet in Moscow.

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A Thai worker rests inside a piece of a water pipeline in Bangkok, Thailand.

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A tourist takes an early morning walk along the shore of Cabo San Lucas in Baja California, Mexico.

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A masked Palestinian protester pours gasoline on burning tires during clashes at the Qalandia crossing in the occupied West Bank following protests, marking Nakba day, which commemorates the exodus of hundreds of thousands of palestinians after the establishment of Israel state in 1948.

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An unidentified man is pulled by riot police during an eviction at Puerta del Sol square where a few demonstrators have remained for a third straight night to mark the anniversary of the “indignados” movement in Madrid, Spain.

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Police officers inspect the remains of vehicles after an explosion ripped through a crowded area of Bogota injuring at least 10 people. Witnesses said the blast appeared to have been from a bomb placed on a public bus, but officials could not immediately confirm the cause. The explosion came shortly after police said they had dismantled a car bomb that leftist rebels allegedly planned to use in an attack on the city’s police headquarters.

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Yawalapiti children play over the Xingu River in the Xingu National Park, Brazil. In August the Yawalapiti tribe will hold the Quarup, which is a ritual held over several days to honour in death a person of great importance to them. This year the Quarup will be honoring two people – a Yawalapiti Indian who they consider a great leader, and Darcy Ribeiro, a well-known author, anthropologist and politician known for focusing on the relationship between native peoples and education in Brazil.

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A street artist appears to float while asking for money in a Madrid Street.